Editorial: Why coordination models and languages in AI?

Applied Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-10

  Omicini, Andrea ^a   Papadopoulos, George A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

COORDINATION MODELS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0242334554     PISSN: 08839514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08839510150204581     Document Type: Article

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